Braised Chicken with Vegetables is a delicious and healthful recipe that the whole family will enjoy. Braised Chicken with Vegetables is a Chinese dish that can be created in everyone's kitchen. There is long standing medical research that indicates Asian cuisine to be very beneficial. It has been found that entrees which include small amounts of meat with vegetables, as is the case with most Asian cuisines, help people to lose weight and stay fit. Thank you for this fabulous recipe, Winingnear family !
(also see another recipe - Broiled Chicken on a Vega-Rice Nest)

I was given this week's Recipe of theWeek from the Winingnear family, who say:

This is a recipe I came up with as a result of a little give and take on an already present Chinese recipe for pork. I do not eat a lot of pork and was on a diet at the time I came up with this alternate version. I also added a hint of my own cooking in, to make it more than just a meat substitution. So here it is, enjoy.

What you need:

• 2 lbs. chicken breasts
• 2+1/2 cups of chicken broth
• 1+1/2 oz. of sesame oil
• 1+1/2 tsp. of soy sauce
• 3 Tbsps.. of coarse brown sugar
• 1/2 doz. green onions sliced in 1" piece
• 1 Tbsp.. ground dry ginger root
• 3 large carrots, cut julienne or oriental style
• 10 oz. of mushrooms, white,black or shittake will work, just fresh ones

What you do:

1. Cut chicken meat into strips narrow and long, no chunks. In a wok or saucepan heat the sesame oil until it will scorch the chicken meat. Drop in the strips of meat and stir fast for 15 seconds or until the meat is lightly scorched. Take the meat out quickly and set aside in a covered dish.
2. To the remainder of the sesame oil, add the chicken stock, soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger root, and half of the green onions. Bring mixture to a boil, then drop in the chicken. Let it boil for approximately two minutes, then turn down the heat and let simmer until the sauce thickens lightly. More chicken stock or brown sugar may be added to lighten or thicken the sauce.
3. When the meat is tender and the sauce is reaching its desired thickness take the meat from the sauce and place the carrots, mushrooms and remaining green onions in and heat the vegetables to desired tenderness. Some steaming of the carrots prior to adding them to the sauce will ensure tenderness.
4. Arrange the chicken meat on a bed of rice and cover with vegetables and sauce. Extra green onions may be chopped finely and sprinkled on top if desired.
5. Also any or all oriental vegetables work well substituted into or added to this dish. Entrees should be egg rolls or fried dumplings with a dipping sauce sauce of your choosing, yet remember this is a semi-sweet dish already and sweet and sour, duck or plum sauce may ruin the sweetness of the main dish. Other options for the dipping sauce could be black bean, Chinese hot mustard, or soy sauce.
   
   This recipe yields 4 to 5 servings

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